Wonderful release. This is definitely my favourite album at the moment. I know, I have a substantial part of the more than 3000 downloads of the album :) This album has been streamed to several of my workstations wherever I come.

Keep 'em coming, Aphilas - very nice work, indeed!

(this is a repost of my review from 2004 - this time with a login)

It's been a long time since I heard some good music.

In today's dull music this is a pleasant oasis of nice tunes.I hope to find more such albums in the future.

I give the Instrumentally Ill EP five stars.

Crazy to think about how far ahead of it's time this album was. I downloaded this years ago off Archive.org and have listened on and off for a long time. Just rediscovered today while I was looking through some music, forgot how great this *FREE* album is. I wish there was more from these guys. Thanks!

...for this great music!!!!!! :)

Beautiful sounds, thanks so much for doing this and making it available. I used it for background on a scenic video of an open space area in my neighborhood, with attribution, of course.

Thanks again!

My review:
http://www.auboutdufil.com/index.php?id=402

I came to this after looking for some fellow Merck (the label this is from) stuff....i have been listening to a lot of Deru lately, as some of his work is on Merck's label...

But this is different, much more ambient if you ask me...so if you can imagine some ambient Merck stuff...

quality, quality music here that anyone from the world would enjoy...some of the finest from the archive...

My Review:
http://blog.rebellen.info/2007/09/20/trip-hop-downbeat-aphilas-instrumentally-ill-ep/

self described as experimental electronics, but so much more. well balanced composition and playful experimenation produces an extremely listenable product

I hate do be a bandwagon jumper but this album is great! Great trip hop, chill out sound to it--interesting loops, much more professional sounding than most netlabels releases.

Has anyone heard the alphilas full-length "Prisoners Of The Planet"? it's a little more hectic. The mp3s I have actually sometimes seem to be glitched, but i think it's just the quirky timing of the looped drums. It's actually quite a masterpeice, except for the strange inclusion of an aphilas remix of blink 182's adams song, which is pretty much just the original with some ambient sound effects. it's a really great album though. and this EP is incredible.

this release had me hooked at the first song. i cant stop swaying and bobbing my head. in fact-- i think im gonna have to stop writing because i cant see the screen well enough-- the music is just moving me too much.

This is the kind of music that I've been searching for quite some time now and thanks to this great web site that brought these guys to my listening bliss. Great Music!!!

if you have read the other reviews, you should know that you need to download this ep now! this is absolutely essential netaudio listening. one of my favorite releases ever! great grooves - very unique and original.

APHILAS SOUNDS FANTASTIC!
This is the kind of music that i love to listen,
Thanks a lot for sharing this with the rest of the world.
Congratulations.

So, as far as every sense in the body is concerned, this album is absolutely amazing. It will most certainly take you on some kind of funky carpet ride, or something of that nature. And, on a lighter note, if you puff on some jeeb before hand, the experience can be elevated to a whole new level.

Wonderful release. This is definitely my favourite album at the moment. I know, I have a substantial part of the more than 3000 downloads of the album :) This album has been streamed to several of my workstations wherever I come.

Keep 'em coming, Aphilas - very nice work, indeed!

What everyone else has been saying is absolutly true!

download this because I'm sittin here swillin the beam at four in the morning and I've never had a better time

An absolutely SUPERB offering of mixed-up vinyl, chill beat mastery. Some of the finest trip-hop I have ever had the pleasure of listening to.

Grab this shizznit now!. Share it with your friends. This is music made by people who make music because they LOVE to make music. It's REAL music. Music with meaning.

amazingly produced and masterfully composed, this is a real masterpiece of the netaudio scene. absolutely to have.

I hadn't really checked this out before noticing it was being re-released on real-life label M3rck, so now I do, I discover.. a totally beautiful piece of nu-chill, reminiscent of Bent, Zero 7, and other generally laidback fellows. Highly, highly recommended.

Liebhaber verrauchter Downbeats hatten es die letzten Jahre schwer. Die Schwemme der Bizniz-Chill-Outs und Cigar-Absinth-Lounges dieses Welt vergÃÂälten durch den Ansturm auf Kruder & Dorfmeister & Co den Sound ziemlich. Aphilas von Miasmah rettet glÃÂücklicherweise unsere Freude am schmoofen Beat.

Seit einigen Tagen ist miasmah.com leider nicht zu erreichen. Hm, Domain-GebÃÂühr nicht bezahlt? Egal! WofÃÂür gibt es schlieÃÂÃÂlich die Scene-FTP-Spiegel dieser Welt und auch auf archive.org liegen die wunderbaren MusikstÃÂücke. Und dann nach dem Download...

...lehnen wir uns gemÃÂütlich zurÃÂück. Denn mit bezwingenden Grooves, schlackernden Beats und knuffig angejazzten Samples begeistern uns sechs unglaublich ausgetÃÂüfftelte Tracks. Selten zufrieden haben wir so nach MC Solaars Album "Qui SÃÂème Le Vent RÃÂécolte Le Tempo" und Mr. Scruffs Jazz-House-Anthem "Get A Move On" gegrinst. Sehr edel.

Was sollen wir hier noch weiter faseln?!? Ein weiterer dicker Beweis, dass Netlabels rocken und nicht nur im IDM ganz gross sind. (Moritz / www.phlow.net)